Provoked Beyond Reason

Many people on this platform proclaim loudly that Donald Trump was unfairly targeted by the legal system. I’m gonna document the REAL truth about what the man they admire is actually doing.

The Biden stimulus was $1.9 trillion. The Trump stimulus was $5.6 trillion. Why had this been forgotten? Why is Trump always held to a lower standard?

If you have this weird gut feeling that the rich pay little tax in the US, your gut is spot on... Source: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

If there were a Nobel Prize for confidence men, Donald would be a shoo-in.

That’s going to create quite the surge in the private security industry. Every Trump “ally” who gets compensated will need 24/7 protection.

@JulietMosesNZ @RQA If this report is true, and if the allegations in the Kristof article are true, it means there is no civilized society in the region. Go ahead and wipe each other out.

I forced myself to read this. I felt physically ill. It is even worse than I imagined because it is unimaginable. It’s about a 180 page report that took 2 years based on 10,000 photos, 1,800 hours of video and the testimony of over 430 survivors, witnesses and medical staff. The report describes "a recurring pattern of rape and gang rape; sexual torture; mutilation; targeted shooting to the face, head and genital area; forced nudity; binding and restraint; genital burning; objects inserted into intimate areas; post-mortem sexual humiliation; and execution during or after sexual assault." And remember Hamas threatened to do it again and again and again. The report has the contributions of dozens of leading figures in their field and is endorsed by eminent people such as Ambassador Isabelle Rome (France’s Ambassador at-Large for Human Rights), Alice Wairimu Nderitu (Former UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide), Noëlle Lenoir (Former Justice on the French Constitutional Court), Aharon Barak (Former President of the Supreme Court of Israel) and Mukesh Kapila (Former Special Adviser to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights). But it has got less attention - certainly among some - than the NY Times opinion piece deliberately (it seems) released the day before that claims Israel trains dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners. The main source is a Hamas-affiliated org that has also claimed Israel has transplanted organs from dead Palestinians, dug out of graves, into living Israelis. Helen Clark has tweeted the opinion piece twice, noting it is “shocking”, but nothing about the investigative report that came out the next day.

Lost in the news this week: the real story behind Palm Beach International becoming Trump International is not the renaming. It is the coercion that produced it and the extraordinary terms hidden inside the deal. County staff told commissioners that refusing would put state transportation funding and grant assurances at risk. DeSantis has already removed state attorneys and school board members who crossed him. That is the climate one Democratic commissioner cast her deciding vote in. And the agreement itself is not a normal honorary naming. The Trump family company retains the right to pick vendors, license the name to third parties, and sell branded merchandise off-site. This is not an honor bestowed as much as it is a shakedown. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…

Trump’s Pardon of the Day™️ George Santos Former Republican member of Congress from New York. Former drag performer in Brazil. Stole money from his own donors. Stole their identities! Pardoned by @POTUS in October 2025. @VP - You say you are all about going after fraud. What do you think of this?

Well, #WhiskeyPete, our SECDEF (or @SecWar), says we have “decimated” Iran’s military. Since the original Roman definition of decimated means to “reduce by ten percent,” Pete may have accidentally gotten it right.

@ChrisVanHollen @AmoneyResists @FBIDirectorKash That’s 9 points right there.

Yesterday, @FBIDirectorKash told me he'd take the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test if I did. Well, here's mine.   Given all the lies he told yesterday, I imagine he'll fudge the numbers here, but let's see yours, Director Patel.

Does North Korea, with its nukes, control us?

MAYBE a couple of hundred self driving trucks on the road now. Could be a thousand by year end. You will still have to sign up to drive OTR routes to fill the gap. Bring a toothbrush.

That’s why he’s still an O-5 after 28 years.

@Aviation_Intel The Washington mantra is “See who benefits.” Which Trump scion will get the contract to build Golden Dome?

Bonkers numbers here, even worse than we expected: 7,800 Interceptors In Space At Core Of $1.2 Trillion Golden Dome Cost Estimate This huge undertaking in low earth orbit would still only be able to engage 10 ICBMs simultaneously, according to the CBO. twz.com/space/7800-int…

I’m a Claude Pro plan subscriber and user. Claude lies like a Trump. “You’re right. I can’t justify it with specific published examples because I was extrapolating from the averages for the full file and applying an unsupported multiplier to the $200+ segment. That was an error — I invented a number and dressed it up as analysis.”

@SteveNomadic What’s so impressive is the compassion that both Steve and Bob are showing for the Spirit employees who have lost their jobs.

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Damn straight. Used to be that your political views were no more important to a friend than what sports team you rooted for.

@ELuttwak Tell me about a modern war that was won using only an air campaign.

Today's NY Times: "Secret [sic] US Intelligence: Iran has access to 30 of its 33 missile sites and could threaten American warships..in the Gulf." BUT the above are NOT anti-ship missiles & are too inaccurate to hit anything smaller than Dubai . The NYT's non-stop propaganda

@JDVance You do not give a damn about fraud. Every one of these people gave Trump $1 million, and each of them got a pardon. That scheme is fraud in and of itself.

This is what we GOT!

Donald’s Pardons # 2 His mother donated $1 million through an exclusive Mar-a-Lago fundraiser weeks before the pardon, and had hosted at least three prior Trump fundraisers.

Donald’s Pardons # 2 Paul Walczak — Nursing home executive Crime: Withheld $10M+ from employee paychecks; bought a $2M yacht. Sentenced to 18 months + $4.4M restitution. The pardon erased the restitution requirement.